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  1. Roma B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roma B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls German invasion in September; ghettoization; joining Hashomer Hatzair; her brother's bar mitzvah; hiding during round-ups; her father arranging her transfer to a farm in July 1942; learning her family was deported (she never saw them again); returning to Warsaw; transfer to a labor camp; returning to Warsaw in January 1943; hiding with relatives during the April 1943 uprising; their discovery; deportation to Majdanek; transfer to Auschwitz; assignment to Canada Kommando; public hanging of Mala Zimetbaum who ...

  2. Morris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1918. He recalls his family's poverty; primitive living conditions; pervasive antisemitism; a tailor's apprenticeship; German invasion; fleeing briefly to Przemys?l; returning home; forced labor; ghettoization; transfer to Pustko?w; return to the ghetto; transfer with a cousin to P?aszo?w; working as a tailor; public shootings of escapees; transfer to Zakopane, then Mauthausen; slave labor in the quarry; transfer to Melk, then Ebensee; observing cannibalism; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Salzburg, then R...

  3. William M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William M., an African-American who enlisted in the United States Army in May 1942. He recalls placement in the segregated 761st tank battalion; local prejudice during basic training in the south; being shipped to England in 1944; his unit's assignment to Patton's Third Army; participation in campaigns, including the Battle of the Bulge; plunging into Dachau by chance in spring 1945; eliminating German resistance; observing prisoners who were "walking skeletons"; the horrible stench; prisoners holding up their hands in gratitude; being warned not to feed them; and lea...

  4. Olga S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga S., who was born in Vilna, Poland. She describes her prewar life in Vilna; life under the Russian occupation from 1939 to 1941; and the German occupation, including anti-Jewish legislation, ghettoization, the massacre at Ponary, and deportations. She also relates her wartime experiences of hiding in a convent and on a farm; smuggling herself back into the ghetto when she faced danger on the Aryan side; working in a labor camp with false papers; and hiding in a bunker with her father and other Jews, where she remained until her liberation by the Russians.

  5. Joseph and Max H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H. and his father, Max H., who was born in Hinterweidenthal, Germany in 1901 and moved to Fulda in 1902. Max H. recounts his father's death in 1918; his assimilated family; deteriorating conditions after 1933; losing his business in 1938; fleeing with his family to Frankfurt after Kristallnacht; incarceration in Dachau; returning to Fulda via Munich; his children leaving on a Kindertransport for England; deportation with his wife in 1941; separation from her when he was sent to Salaspils; mass killings; joining his wife in the Ri?ga ghetto; separation from her ...

  6. August H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of August H., a Catholic, who was born in Lebbeke, Belgium in 1921, one of nine children. He recalls attending Catholic schools; fleeing south with one brother during the German invasion; returning home; joining a small cell of the Resistance; providing information about train traffic and schedules; working in a factory in Opwijk; arrest; interrogation in Ghent for a week; deportation with his brother to Bochum; their transfer two months later to a prison in Hameln, then a year later to Gross Strehlitz; forced labor making chalk; separation from his brother upon transfer...

  7. Rabbi Abraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Rabbi Abraham K., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1918. Rabbi K. describes his family; moving to Sosnowiec in 1942; formation of the ghetto; and deportation to Auschwitz with his fiancee's family. He relates conditions in Birkenau; interaction with other prisoners; being sick with typhus; selections; and being chosen for a special detail. Rabbi K. recalls transfer to Sachsenhausen, where forged English currency was inspected and sorted for a variety of uses by the German government. Rabbi K. recounts incidents of religious observance; working on a Gestapo archive whic...

  8. Yehuda A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yehuda A., who was born in Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1924. He recalls his family's liberal orthodoxy; attending school; antisemitic harassment and violence after Hitler's ascent to power; emigration with his family to Palestine in 1935; enlisting in the British army in 1941; smuggling arms and refugees to Palestine after his discharge; joining the Haganah in 1946, then the Palmah? in 1947; serving in the Israel-Arab War; meeting the poet Haim Gouri in the military; beginning to write poetry; marriage in 1949; and writing a novel resulting from his visit to Wu?rzburg and t...

  9. Larry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry S., who was born in Hofheim, Germany in 1922. He recounts moving to Bamberg in 1934 or 1935 so his father would not be placed in a concentration camp; his father fleeing to Holland; attending gymnasium in Wu?rzburg with his brother; his father's return; attending school in Florence in 1936; his arrest during Hitler's visit; apprenticeship in a tool and die shop in Nuremberg; his father's arrest during Kristallnacht; being placed on a children's transport to England; living with an aunt and uncle; working as a tool and die maker; and emigrating to the United Stat...

  10. Susan F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919. She recalls moving with her mother to Prague in 1933 to join relatives, her father thinking it safer; anti-Jewish measures in 1939 including expulsion from the family home; her father telephoning to tell them he had to report to a transport (they never saw him again); deportation with her mother to Theresienstadt in May 1942, then to Estonia in September; their separation in Raasiku (she never saw her again); slave labor in Ja?gala, Reval, Narwa, and Kivio?li; close bonds with her fellow prisoners which saved her from...

  11. Sam C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam. C., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1922, the younger of two sons. He recounts his father's death in the late 1920s; his mother working to support him and his brother; graduating from the French Lyce?e in 1939 with a degree in commercial studies; working for a Greek import company; his brother's military draft; bombings by Italy in October 1940; German occupation in April 1941; a one-day round-up to Eleftheria (Freedom) Square in late 1942; his brother's marriage; ghettoization; deportation with his friend in 1943 by train; slave labor building railroad ...

  12. Elizabeth D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth D., a Jehovah's Witness, who was born in Germany in 1929 and grew up in Saxony. She relates her father's activities as a Jehovah's Witness; his repeated arrests beginning shortly after Hitler's rise to power; his final arrest in 1936; and her mother's arrest at that time. She speaks of the 1936 trial of Jehovah's Witnesses, including her parents; her mother's two and a half year sentence; her father's imprisonment; his refusal to renounce his faith; and his eventual death in Sachsenhausen. Mrs. D. recalls living with her grandparents during her parents' impr...

  13. Elly G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elly G., who was born in Simleul-Silvaniei, Romania in 1929. She recalls her brother's birth in 1939; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion (they never saw him again); ghettoization in spring 1944; a woman giving birth and a man dying during transport to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and brother (she never saw them again); remaining with a cousin; her cousin getting her a privileged kitchen job; transfer to another camp; slave labor in a factory; illness from fumes in the factory (she...

  14. Lauryann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lauryann F., who was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1928, an only child. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; visits to Paris; moving to join her mother's family in Gyulaha?za, Hungary; an idyllic childhood; attending Catholic school; harassment by the Arrow Cross beginning in 1938; moving to IV. Keru?let, a Budapest suburb; German invasion in March 1944; forced relocation to Jewish-designated housing; attending a private art school; declining a rescue offer by a priest in order to remain with her parents; round-up to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; separati...

  15. Isaac K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac K., who was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, the middle child of five. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his bar mitzvah shortly thereafter, which was sad due to the occupation; his father losing his business permit; learning cantorial and opera singing; German invasion in spring 1944; his arrest as a hostage in place of his father; his father obtaining his release after two weeks; ghettoization at a brick factory; a severe beating which left him unable to process information for some time; dep...

  16. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L. who was born into a well known Hasidic famiy in ?o?dz? in 1924. She remembers the outbreak of the war; the actions against Jews which followed; and her brother's wedding, which took place just before the family was transferred to the ?o?dz? ghetto, where they led a relatively privileged life due to family connections. Mrs. L. describes life in the ghetto, including the constant round-ups and raids; widespread starvation, disease, and dehumanization; slave labor; spiritual resistance and religious observance; and the closeness of her family throughout their orde...

  17. Selma S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Selma S., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1925, one of four children. She recalls her family's focus on Zionism and culture; their orthodoxy; spending time with her large extended family; her paternal family's bookstore, a cultural center; attending German and Jewish schools; her father having to transfer his bookstore to a non-Jew; arrest and deportation of her parents and brother by Hlinka guards (she never saw them again); incarceration with her younger brother in Žilina; their release through her uncle's intervention; staying with an aunt in Nové M...

  18. Hildegard W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hildegard W., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1912. Mrs. W. describes her liberal Protestant childhood; unfamiliarity with Judaism and antisemitism before marrying a Jew in 1931; early Nazi anti-Semitic acts which they and others did not take seriously; their reluctance to abandon their successful business; the birth of her sons in 1933 and 1935; and a vacation in the Hartz mountains in 1936 during which an encounter with Nazis convinced her husband to emigrate. She recalls increased intimidation; the arrest of a homosexual employee; preparations to leave; and the...

  19. Michael B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931. He recounts his father's death when he was a year old; visits to his grandparents in Budapest; the Anschluss in 1938; antisemitic propaganda; his mother withdrawing him from school; their conversion to Roman Catholicism, hoping for safety; futile attempts to emigrate to the United States; traveling to Budapest in spring 1941; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish measures; forced relocation in June; their housemate, Béla Vihar, entertaining the children; Allied bombings; forced labor with his scout troop; hi...

  20. Zvi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi S., who was born in Komaro?w, Poland in 1931 one of nine children. He recalls German invasion; the murder of a friend; the outpouring of mourning at the funeral which still haunts him; killings whenever Germans entered town; his family hiding; ghettoization; digging a bunker under their room; hiding when Germans came; being attacked by a German dog; hiding with his family during the final liquidation; escaping one at a time; meeting one brother, one sister, and his father in the woods (the rest of the family was killed); hiding in a village; receiving food from Po...